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The Focal Aria 936 produces a big, seamless soundstage filled with tantalizing musical detail. Focal's Aria series features advanced technologies originally developed for the company's acclaimed Utopia models, providing expressive, audiophile sound at more down-to-earth prices. The Aria 936's trio of flax fiber woofers produces exciting midbass and low-frequency impact to enhance your music and movies.

Seamless, life-sized sound from top to bottom

The Focal Aria 936 produces a big, seamless soundstage filled with tantalizing musical detail. Focal's Aria series features advanced technologies originally developed for the company's acclaimed Utopia models, providing expressive, audiophile sound at more down-to-earth prices. The Aria 936's trio of flax fiber woofers produces exciting midbass and low-frequency impact to enhance your music and movies.

The midrange and woofer cones are made of a composite of flax and fiberglass.

Cone material combines old and new

Speaker makers continuously search for new and better materials for drivers. An ideal driver material has three qualities:

lightweight, so it can accelerate quickly

rigid, so that it moves like a piston, without bending

well-damped, so that unwanted vibrations don't color the sound

In their pursuit of sonic excellence, Focal made a surprising discovery — right in their own backyard. Woven flax can form the core of a very rigid yet lightweight speaker cone. Some of the world's finest flax grows in fields near Focal's headquarters.

Focal creates this unique cone by sandwiching a layer of hollow flax fibers between two thin layers of fiberglass. In the Aria 936, the 6-1/2" midrange and all three 6-1/2" woofers are made of this composite.

Inverted dome tweeter looks different, sounds terrific

The Aria series also features Focal's 1" aluminum/magnesium inverted dome tweeter. Inverting the dome brings more of its surface area closer to the voice coil. That means the voice coil can be smaller and lower in mass. Focal has found that this reduced mass allows the dome to move faster than a conventional dome, for better high-frequency response.

And the tweeter's lightweight Poron "memory foam" suspension improves damping, which reduces distortion in the critical 2-3kHz range by a factor of three, compared to a typical suspension.

The inverted dome's spatial characteristics and wide dispersion are further enhanced by the waveguide plate it's mounted on. In the horizontal plane, the tweeter's frequency response varies by only ±0.5dB. The result is an incredibly stable soundstage, even for listeners not seated in the central sweet spot.

Stylish, vibration-resistant cabinet

All Aria speakers feature ultra-rigid MDF cabinets with sturdy internal bracing and non-parallel sides. Focal takes these steps to eliminate the unwanted vibrations that lead to "boxy" colorations in the sound. The handsome cabinets have a traditional look, but with a few unexpected touches — a leatherette finish on the front, and a glass top surface.

Build a complete Focal Aria system

Built in-house for better quality and value

The speaker drivers in every Aria speaker are built in-house at Focal's facilities in Saint-Etienne, France. Why is that important? Because it gives Focal complete control over every aspect of design, manufacture, and quality control, resulting in a consistently superior, high-value speaker.

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Features

Three-Way Floorstanding Loudspeaker: The Aria 936 is a three-way Floorstanding
loudspeaker that utilizes Focal's TNF inverted dome tweeter, a Flax cone
midrange driver, and three Flax cone woofers
for a smooth, natural sound with no coloration. You'll hear highs that are
detailed and delicate, midrange that is rich and articulate, and bass that is
deep and accurate. The Focal Aria 936 Floorstanding loudspeaker is designed
to faithfully reproduce music and movie soundtracks in a dedicated stereo
configuration or home theater application.

Poron Suspension: The suspension between the dome and its bracket
uses Poron, a material with shape memory. This suspension method is directly
derived from the famous Utopia Beryllium tweeter, making it possible to
reduce distortion by a factor of three in the 2-3kHz range, where the human
ear has very great sensitivity. The mechanical properties of the new
suspension system using Poron, an open cell polyurethane microcellular foam,
provides numerous benefits - including excellent dimensional stability and
no degradation over time. The advantages of the use of Poron in this tweeter
are obvious in terms of linearity and distortion reduction. This leads to a
silkier, more precise sound with greater harmonic richness.

Urethane Waveguide: The tweeter mounting has an integral
waveguide which maximizes horizontal directivity and minimizes diffraction.
The Urethane waveguide improves horizontal directivity and provides a more
precise sound image with an incredibly stable sound stage, making the
listening position much less critical.

Note: The TNF tweeter uses a relatively flexible aluminum/magnesium
alloy, with a "shape memory" enabling it to withstand the majority of small
impacts in the home. Nevertheless, Focal recommends leaving the included grilles
in place to protect the dome. If the dome surface is marked this could have an
impact on the tweeter.

Flax Cone Midrange & Woofers: The Aria 900 series benefits from Focal's
Flax sandwich driver cones with injected zamak baskets, making voices more intelligible
with more depth. Flax is an
eco-textile with astounding structural properties - it is light, stiff, and well
damped for greater neutrality of timbres and better definition. The Aria 936 is
composed of one 6.5" midrange driver and three 6.5" woofers with Flax sandwich cones that provide natural
midrange, rich bass, and high definition sound. This sandwich cone is made of
high quality flax fiber enclosed by two thin layers of glass fiber. The lightness of the fiber satisfies the criteria of high internal damping,
high velocity, and high flexural rigidity. Flax is twice as light as fiberglass,
because the fiber is hollow. It also has very low elasticity which makes it
ideal to increase the flexural rigidity of a sandwich structure.

Ultra-Rigid MDF Enclosures: The speaker cabinet features
ultra-rigid MDF construction, internal bracing, non-parallel side panels, and an
aluminum alloy base for
a neutral sound with very little vibration or distortion. The cabinet highlights
a glass top-surface for added strength and a leather-finished front panel for its
absorbent and acoustic diffraction qualities. The cabinet has no visible
fixings; only a solid brushed metal ring surrounding the cone drivers and a
matte-black urethane waveguide around the tweeter. The included fabric grille
attaches magnetically. This carefully designed cabinet exudes style and quality,
blending in perfectly with traditional or more contemporary interiors.

Note: The cabinets of this Aria 900 line are available in
Walnut, Black High Gloss and White High Gloss finishes.

Multiple-Port Powerflow System: The Aria 936 Floorstanding speaker utilizes
Focal's Multiple-Port Powerflow System with a front-firing and down-firing aerodynamic port for greater efficiency and bigger, deeper bass
performance with more impact and less distortion.

Binding Post Speaker Terminals: The Focal Aria 936 Floorstanding speaker is equipped with a set of
heavy-duty binding post terminals that will
accept bare wire (up to 10AWG), pin-connectors, spade-lugs, and banana plugs
(single only). Two plastic inserts will need to be removed to use banana plugs.

Aluminum Alloy Base (w/ Rubber, Spike, & Plastic Feet): The
Focal Aria 936 floorstanding loudspeaker features an aluminum alloy base for
excellent stability and aids in the speaker's overall performance. The aluminum
alloy base will need to be installed; it screws into the bottom of the speaker
cabinet using the included four hex-head screws. The base has four integrated
rubber feet for hardwood, tile, vinyl, and laminate flooring (if you choose to
use the integrated rubber feet, completely unscrew the pre-installed spike feet
from the base). If you have carpeted floors, four spike feet are pre-installed
in the base. The spike feet are adjustable for leveling up the speaker on uneven
floors. If you prefer to use the spike feet, but have hardwood or tile flooring,
you can use the included plastic feet that fit over the spike feet to protect
your floors.

Note: Due to the down-firing port and for proper stability,
the floorstanding loudspeaker is not to be used without the
aluminum alloy base installed.

Placement Options: Follow these simple placement guidelines
to optimize the Aria 936 floorstanding loudspeaker's performance and to
guarantee good tonal balance and a realistic sound stage.

The loudspeakers should be positioned symmetrically, facing the
listening area, ideally forming an equilateral triangle with it. It is,
however, possible to vary these distances to arrive at the ideal compromise
for any particular conditions.

Do not position your loudspeakers too close to a corner of the room and
do not place them too close to a wall. If they are positioned close to a
wall or a corner this has the effect of exciting certain resonances within
the room and artificially increasing the bass. Conversely, if the bass level
is judged to be insufficient, you could try moving the loudspeakers nearer a
wall to re-balance the bass level.

Note: The Aria 936 Floorstanding loudspeaker is recommended for
rooms measuring from 215ft2 and from a listening distance of 10ft.

Aria 900 Series: Focal's Aria series consists of three pair
of floorstanding loudspeakers (926/936/948),
a pair of bookshelf loudspeakers (906),
a center channel speaker (CC900),
and a pair of bipolar surround speakers (SR900)
- all sold separately. The Aria series delivers Focal's classic sound
with a modern design.

Made In France: The Aria 900 series of loudspeakers are developed and
manufactured in France by Focal.

Break-In Period: The Aria 900 loudspeakers are complex mechanical
assemblies which need a period of adaptation ("break-in") to operate at their
best and to become acclimated to the temperature and humidity conditions of your
environment. This break-in period varies depending on the conditions in question
and may last for some weeks. To facilitate break-in, Focal recommends operating
their speakers for approximately twenty hours consecutively. Once the
loudspeakers' characteristics totally stabilize, you will be able to enjoy the
Aria 900's performance to the fullest.

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